Brandon Reinbold
Dr. Yeoman
Dr. Yeoman’s research seeks to uncovering the various forces shaping the structure and function of host-associated microbial communities and understanding their impact on host nutrition, health and development. His work to date has focussed on the microbial communities associated with humans, wild and captive primates, and various agriculturally-important livestock species, including cattle and sheep and transcends gastrointestinal and reproductive tract niches. Dr Yeoman’s research employees multiple molecular methods and often involves longitudinal and biospatial analyses which he believes are critical to understanding the true impact of the microbiota.
Dr. Bryan White
Dr. Bryan White is a Professor Emeritus of Animal Sciences in the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, and the Director of the Mayo Clinic and University of Illinois Alliance for Technology-Based Healthcare. Dr. White is has published over 145 peer review manuscripts and received over $13M in competitive grants from the USDA, DOE, NSF and NIH. White’s major research interests are in using microbial physiology, genomics and metagenomics, and ecology to understand host-microbe interactions in vertebrates. His laboratory has used animal models that address fiber utilization in domestic animal species for understanding nutrition and food safety. His work with human and non-human primate gastrointestinal and reproductive tracts address the role of the microbiome in women’s reproductive health, the development of autoimmune diseases, cancer etiology and prevention, and evolution of the host. In 2015 he was elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Microbiology.
Aline Rodrigues Hoffmann
Aline Rodrigues Hoffmann, DVM, MS, PhD, Diplomate American College of Veterinary Pathologists, Assistant Professor at the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, USA. She is one of the pathologists at the Dermatopathology Specialty Service offered by Texas A&M University. Her research is primarily focused on studying the bacterial and fungal microbiome in the skin of companion animals, and correlating microbiome changes with development and pathogenesis of skin diseases. Other aspects of her research include basic dermatopathology, pathogenesis of infectious diseases, and microbiology. She is the author and co-author of several articles describing the skin Microbiome in companion animals. She has also been involved and dedicated to diagnostic pathology, and training of professional students and veterinary pathology residents. She is a member of the American Academy of Veterinary Dermatology, International Society of Veterinary Dermatopathology, American College of Veterinary Pathologists, and American Society of Microbiology.
Professor Albert Jergens
Clinical interests: gastroenterology, endoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease, performance of clinical trials. Research interests: endoscopy, GI immunology, host-microbiota interactions mediating GI health and disease.
